This Research Handbook includes carefully chosen contributions to provide a well-rounded perspective on design thinking. Encouraging debate and development for future research in design conceptualisation, this forward-thinking Handbook raises crucial questions about what design thinking is and what it could be.
With thirty-six expert contributors representing a wide range of disciplines, this Research Handbook contains seventeen chapters structured into three thematic parts to explore the people, processes, and practices of design thinking. Method case studies demonstrate how design thinking has been implemented across different disciplines and contexts. Challenging current design methodologies, chapters move beyond outcome-focused perspectives to examine the diverse range of processes employed for design research. While each chapter provides a novel perspective on design practice, read as an entire work, it continuously challenges the reader to reposition their perspectives. The Handbook unpacks the creative process by isolating each stage and examining them in detail, tracing success through empirical evidence back to design origins.
The Research Handbook on Design Thinking provides an overview of the field’s history, theoretical approaches, key concepts, perspectives, and methods. It is well-suited to academics and practitioners interested in the development of design thinking theory and the different perspectives traversing theory through to practice globally.
Author(s): Karla Straker, Cara Wrigley
Series: Research Handbooks in Business and Management
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 342
City: Cheltenham
Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Introduction to the Research Handbook on Design Thinking
Part I Perspectives on Designers
1. A design thinker’s mind: insights on the neurocognitive processes of ideation
2. Design facilitation practice: an integrated framework
3. Who gets to wear the black turtleneck? Questioning the profession of design thinking
4. Method case study - Making design thinking tactile: unlocking meaning and experiences with tactile tools and generative prototypes
Part II Perspectives on Design Thinking as a Process
5. The agile landscape of design thinking
6. Bridging the academia-industry gap through design thinking: research innovation sprints
7. Design4Health: developing design thinking bootcamps in the Middle East
8. Design thinking to improve student mental well-being
9. From gas to green: designing a social contagion strategy for the energy transition in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
10. Method case study - A design thinking toolkit for framing market conditions
Part III Perspectives on Design Thinking as a Practice
11. The fragility of design thinking: applying symbolic interactionism to promote shared meaning
12. Dealing with the difficulties of policy formulation in policy design: the merits and demerits of the application of design thinking to the policy realm
13. The weakest link: the importance of problem framing in design thinking
14. Factor structure, validity, and reliability of an instrument for assessing design thinking
15. Using action research to facilitate and teach design thinking in graduate management education
16. Method case study - The transmedia journalism design thinking toolkit
17. Conclusion - Beyond normal design thinking: reflections on the evolution of a paradigm and ideas for the new incommensurable
Index
